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Can an Universal forwarder act as a deployment server ?

ssankeneni
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Can an Universal forwarder act as a deployment server ?

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Nope. It is only for forwarding, it is not a full instance.

Adding link: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Deploy/Introducingtheuniversalforwarder

alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Please mark as accepted if this has answered your question.

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ssankeneni
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Thank you.

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